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When this website is complete, it will contain an extensive
collection of primary source documents from the Cultural Revolution
(including speeches, newspaper editorials and articles, directives,
big-character posters, letters, diaries, pamphlets, and
self-criticisms), as well as a wide range of secondary source
material, such as essays, memoirs, articles, and book excerpts.
These personal narratives, histories, biographies, and scholarly
analyses will serve to represent a variety of perspectives on the
Cultural Revolution.
Original documents - examples:
The Little Red Book
Revolutionary Cultural Productions:
Literature and Art Workers Hold Rally for Great Proletarian
Cultural Revolution
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Rent Collection Courtyard - Sculptures of Oppression and
Revolt
About the Red Guards:
It's Fine! |
Red Guards Destroy the Old and Establish the New
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The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution Engulfs Peking's
Streets
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The Red Guards' Battle Song, We Are Chairman Mao's Red
Guards
The Mao Cult:
The Whole Family is Red
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World's People Eagerly Seek Chairman Mao Badges
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Mao Zedong Thought is the Telescope and Microscope of Our
Revolutionary Cause
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Exploring the Secrets of Treating Deaf-Mutes
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Mao Tse-tung's Thought Opens a New Road to the Curing of
Deaf-Mutes
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Cancer is a Paper Tiger
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Spiritual Atom Bomb Aids Harvest
Secondary sources - examples:
Geremie R. Barmé,
Shades of Mao: The Posthumous Cult of the Great Leader
Richard Curt Kraus,
The Tiananmen Poems, about the April 1976 Tiananmen Incident, from
Brushes with Power
Simon Leys, "Human Rights in China," 1978 essay published in The Burning Forest
Jonathan Spence essay on Tiananmen Square,
The Gate and the Square
Ban Wang, "The Cultural Revolution: A Terrible Beauty Is Born," from
The Sublime Figure of History: Aesthetics and Politics in
Twentieth-Century China
Related Readings - examples:
Online Articles
Elizabeth J. Perry and Li Xun, "Revolutionary Rudeness: The Language of Red Guards and Rebel
Workers in China's Cultural Revolution,"
Indiana East Asian Working Paper Series on Language and
Politics in Modern China
2 (Summer 1993): 7.
Michael Schoenhals, "Talk about a Revolution: Red Guards, Government Cadres, and the
Language of Political Discourse,"
Indiana East Asian Working Paper Series on Language and Politics
in Modern China 1 (Spring 1993): 39.
Vivian Wagner, "Songs of the Red Guards: Keywords Set to Music,"
Indiana East Asian Working Paper Series on Language and
Politics in Modern China
2 (Winter 1996).
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Elizabeth J. Perry, eds.,
Popular Protest and Political Culture in Modern China
(Boulder: Westview Press, 1994).
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Images and Photographs
Chinese Propaganda Posters, From the Collection of Michael Wolf (TASCHEN, 2003).
Chinese Propaganda Posters: From Revolution to
Modernization, Stefan Landsberger (Pepin Press, 1997).
Picturing Power in the People's Republic of China, Harriet Evans and Stephanie Donald (Rowman & Littlefield
Publishing, 1999).
Red-Color News Soldier, Li Zhensheng (Phaidon Press, 2003).
Painters and Politics in the People's Republic of China,
1949-1979, Julia F. Andrews (University of California Press, 1994).
Art and Politics in China, 1949-1984, Maria
Galikowski (Chinese University Press, 1998).
Key Documents
China's Cultural Revolution, 1966-1969: Not a Dinner Party, Michael Schoenhals (M.E. Sharpe, 1996).
Educational Materials
Teaching Red Scarf Girl
- A Study Guide to Ji-li Jiang's memoir, Red Scarf Girl,
from
Facing History and Ourselves
Selected Bibliography
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